Colorado

A couple weeks ago, we all flew to Colorado Springs for my sister's wedding. It was great to see her and my brother whom I rarely get to see. The wedding was beautiful! Like something out of a wedding magazine!
It was a rather short trip, just 4 days and FULL of activities!
Note to self- NEVER, NEVER,NEVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES take a 15 month old on a 6 hour plane ride again!!!!!!!
We were the family you see in the movies with the hysterical baby on board:) we had to wake him up to go at 4:30 in the morning so it made for a VERY long day. On the way back he did SO MUCH better! We requested bulkhead seats and he LOVED being able to get down and play...he spent most of the time ''talking'' with other passengers or playing ''peek-a-boo'' with the ladies in the next seat! Very cute! So anyhow...I think we will be staying home for a while;)

The pictures above are of my family....my brother, mom, aunt, sis, and grandma

GUESS WHAT???????

Jake is going to have a new playmate!!!!!! That's right gals and guys....I'M PREGNANT!!!!!
I'm only a little over 4 weeks pregnant. I have not gone to the doctor's yet...i'll go at 8 weeks. My due date though is almost Jake's birthday!!! It's anywhere from August 24-26. I was due with Jake on august 26 but he came on Aug.30.....So almost exactly 2 years apart!!!
We have been trying for 6 months to get pregnant again. This time around was certainly longer than the first 2, but it has really been ANOTHER opportunity to trust the Lord's timing for us. We are SO GRATEFUL to the Lord for this HUGE HUGE BLESSING!!!!!
I LOVE being pregnant, I LOVE knowing that there is another life being formed in me, I LOVE reading all the details of what is happening every day with my little one, I even LOVE feeling sick and exhausted!!! I LOVE talking to other random pregnant women in malls, stores, check outs, ANYWHERE!!!! So as you can tell, I LOVE it all!
I have been so busy with our trip to colorado that I really haven't had time to be tempted to fear another miscarriage. I know my sin filled heart needs to be on guard against this HUGE temptation that seems to accompany every pregnancy. God is faithful and good and He has a plan for this little one, whatever that may be. Please, everyone, be praying for hasty #2 and as well my heart, that I may GLORIFY and TRUST God in this pregnancy and focus more on this blessing than on worry or fear of the ''what ifs''.
I invite you all to feel free to ask me how I am doing in this area.

Also That I would have enough energy while I work 2 afternoons a week for the old family I used to nanny for. It's only till May, but I know 3 kids those days might be more work(yeah I know juli,becky,jess,are laughing right now)
I worked 45+hours a week till I was 2 weeks due with jake, with that family, so I never have been used to ''taking it easy'' during pregnancy, so hopefully I will be used to it.

I hope you all like pregnancy updates because there will be A LOT of them!!!
I will post pics of the wedding later....

My personal favorite!!!

This is James clowning around with his infamous ''boy band'' pose:)

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Here's a couple more pics cause nothing's new;)

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving this year in the Hasty house turned out to be great! I had my doubts seeing how this year would be our first year spending it just as a family...just the 3 of us. James did not get friday off this year so we had to stay home and not travel. James and I spent a of time in the kitchen together cooking while Jake napped. James did the cornish hens and I cooked the rest. Cooking together is something we LOVE to do but hardly ever get a chance to do together. A lot of good conversation comes from these times together! I love that my man can build/fix ANYTHING, can break boards in karate with his bare hands and knows the difference between rosemary and thyme and what that will taste like in a marinade(no making fun guys!....)!!!!!God TOTALLY knew how to pick the man for me!!!!.;)........anyhow, back to thanksgiving....
I really wanted this year to be special so I put some time into decorating the table and centerpiece. We also used our nice white linens and our nice dishes. I was so busy cooking that i forgot to take any pics:( I pulled together a lot of ideas from on of my all time favorite authors, Edith Shaeffer from ''the art of homemaking''...geez i love her!!!!
Jake was in such a fun mood and he loved that his daddy was home all day! Do you know that after cooking all that I did for that ''special'' day...he didn't like any of it!!! So Jake had a pb&j sandwich for thanksgiving dinner!!!!!!!!
On Friday and Saturday we put up Christmas!!! This year we decided to be ''retro'' and buy a REAL tree! we went to Hodges dairy farm and picked one out. totally reminded me of ''the Christmas story'' movie! we love our real tree! they were so nice ...as usual at Hodges dairy farm that I highly recommend going there!
Although we did miss the noise and laughter of family members....we really did enjoy this year as a family! We might even do it again next year!!!

Just a quick post on how much I LOVE this book!!!! It's a book on the character and life of the disciples. John MacArthur is one of my favorite writers and I loved his twelve extraordinary women book as well. So....if you are looking for a new book, I highly recommend this one.
UPDATE: so i still don't know how to post an amazon pic of the book.....its called ''twelve ordinary men'' by john macarthur

pictures...

i will be posting A LOT of pics here in the next few days of my family. i love them all! these are the pics from jason that turned out so well. he gave me near 200!!!! so, I hope you all can bare up through the shrine of pictures of my men!

Tagged again......

so NOW im supposed to list 8 things about myself you didn't know about me . and then do something or other ....whatever. I will tag NO ONE ELSE ;) okay, so i really had to think about this for a while since everyone else had such witty things to reveal. I have to sort through most of my really rebelliouse, before being saved.....memories.ugh. so in order to not have any c&c, i will keep it light:)

1. I eat ketchup on EVERYTHING!! eggs, taco's, speghetti, you name it, it needs it. I have had many conversations(dissagrements) with my husband on why it looks a little''red'' to ask for it at the Melting Pot. i will start bringing my own.

2. I went to a performing arts school 9-12 grade for theater. I didn't want to be a movie star...i wanted to be a raman-noodle eating, always waiting for the ''big break'' thespian who lived in a 100 sq.ft flat with 5 other ''thespians''.....in new york city.

3. I was always cast as the mean, snobby, cheerleader or some other snooty role.ugh. that got old. my theater teacher said until i trained my voice to get rid of the high-pitched squeak....i would always be typecasted.harsh.

4. James was my first ''real'' boyfriend

5. In middle school, i knowingly let my older sister get on the bus with her skirt tucked into her pantyhose. she was really traumatized. now i feel bad about that. but it was funny.

6. I used to believe in aliens. really. i watched that show''sightings'' so much that i started to wonder if I had ever been abducted by aliens too. It would have explained A LOT!

7. My favorite color is pink

8. I only eat pizza without the cheese. when my sis used to model, that was one of her ''secrets'' to be able to eat pizza. Funny thing is i prefer it over eating it with cheese now. yummy.

Tagged again......

Family Pictures

This is just one of the family pics we had taken with jason kovacs last weekend. He is amazingly gifted, as you can tell. Jake was a bit cranky for the photo shoot so we will see how they all turn out. I though james looked so hot! can i say that on my blog??? someone said he looks like a country singer?????i'll take that as a compliment :) And jakes eyes look AMAZING!!!!
thank you jason!!
more pics to come!

Tagged

yeah....my friend juli tagged me on nameing 7 of my favorite children's books..I am sooo lost on this one! I have been a nanny for quite a while yet I don't really recall any''favorites'' of the stories. I read lovely cardboard books to jake right now so nothing really advanced :) He likes ''were going on a bearhunt'' a lot ...especailly when i make all the appropriate noises. And I do like ''goodnight moon''. and i can't forget ''where is baby?'' with the fun flip up tabs. I read a little of ''the gospel for children'' some nights as well. I don't know authors though. He listens to max maclean's voice over for the book of romans every night for bed too....does that count? ;) This has been great to see everyone's books, we have been wanting to stock up for part of his christmas presents but didn't know what to get. this answers that question! And everyone has been tagged that I know, so i can't tag anyone else!!!!

Halloween

Halloween

Every year the WHOLE family goes over to james parents house for yummy food and trick or treating. they all pile on the golfcart and go down one street to trick or treat. Jake loves to be around his 5 cousins and this year we had more family show up!...we did miss monica and her kiddos! Jake was a frog....maw-maw gave him a BIG bag full of candy, but daddy stole it and took it all to work....thank you!!!!

Jake has been HILARIOUSE lately! He really has his daddy's personality and humor! He loves when we sneak up on him and scare him...he laughs so hard! just like his daddy! he's taking his time with not quite walking yet. He will use his walking toys a lot and cruise around all the funiture so i think it will be soon. He has been so cheerful and fun, especially when he wakes up. He says ''uh-oh'' now for everything. He will drop something intentionally so he can say it. I'm starting to find his toys in the most random places....found one he put in the fridge when i wasn't looking and i hurt my foot steping in the shower on a plastic cow. It reminds me just how much my life has changed! ....James and i often wonder, what did we DO for the 5 years we were married before we had him? does anyone else remember life before kids....yet i really, really cherish those years getting to know my husband and it being just him and !. okay...i'm rambling.....here are the pics!.

Jake and Lauren

Last week we took care of Lauren aka'' bidgie'' for some dear friends while they went on a pastor's retreat. We had so much fun with her! Her and Jake got along very well and he only had a few moments of jealosy when I would hold her ;) They both LOVED going on wagon rides together, so much better with a friend! It's kinda funny that Jake was never really that big into baby einstein dvd's until Lauren came. She really likes them! So ever since she has left, he tries to go pull them down and hand them to me and will watch the whole 1/2 hour show! I must admit, It has been nice to get to hold him on my lap for an exteded amount of time or even get to do chores while he's watching them. I do try to sit with him and repeat/point out colors or animals.

Adventures under the cabinets

Here is his new discovery.......pulling out the tupperware and getting IN the cabinet.

Punkins

We went to hodges dairy farm last week and got a punkin(that is how we say it here in the south....or at least that is what the sign said ''punkins for sale''. It was fun! jake was a little stoic so not any pics of him actually smiling but he seemed to enjoy it. He liked to lick the nasty dirty punkins straight off the ground.

More vacation pics

vacation

This is what he wanted to do on the beach...eat shells.



We are back from vacation!!!!
we left for a week to myrtle beach for our little family vacation. we stayed at our family's very nice and very large beach house. Such a blessing! sooooo......no wrecks!!!! yaaahhh! The start of the vacation was kinda rough. Jake popped a molar while we were there so he was really cranky the first few days. I had to really work on lowering my expectation of what I thought the first part would be like. God is not in the business of taking a vacation from sanctifying you huh? Seems like we coulda made a little deal for that week.....lol. :) But the vacation got better as the days went by. Our hearts grew more patient and full of grace toward jake's teething/runny nose/sin issues, and he started to act better day by day. We had a lot of fun exploring other beaches and found we LOVE Pawley's Island!!! so cute!
We took a lot of walks on the beach and went to the pool/beach every day.
and THE LORD HEARD OUR PRAYERS FOR GOOD, MAKE THAT GREAT WEATHER!!!!
you see....it never fails when we go to the beach it rains like......all day! Thank you God!!!
Most of all, my favorite part of the vacation was getting not only to spend quality,uninterrupted time together as a family...with no phones or e-mails.....But getting to spend SO MUCH time with my sweetie! Every night when jake went to bed we would go on the high deck where you can see the ocean, and just talk. We brought some fun/serious questions are pastor made up a while back for couples. We'd pick 1-2 questions for each other and spend the whole night...even into the wee hours of the morning talking about them. It was really nice to talk about things other than work/babies;)
I hope I don't sound prideful when i say this ...we even were faithful to do our devotions everyday on vacation. that is definitely an evidence of grace because normally we are such slackers that we end up not meeting with the lord EVER on a vacation..... I was challenged by a quote about devotions on vacations by c.j mahaney. He says that ''indwelling sin never takes a vacation''. I really believe God used that time to consistently check our heart with our temptation to want a ''perfect'' vacation and to be more patient and purposeful with each other.
We look forward to going again next year when jake is walking and can really enjoy the beach!